This evening the Council met from 6.30 to 11.10 in a continuation of yesterday’s meeting. The revised budget did not pass and we will return on Monday evening.
Sorry this is a very brief post – as you can imagine I’m a bit tired now! Can’t promise to blog tomorrow as I have a very busy day in work and a scrutiny meeting in the evening.
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Moving on to the big picture , I wonder if the Tories would agree that the council tax is basically an unfair tax which is not based on the ability to pay.—-Surely this is wrong –people on lower incomes pay a greater percentage of that income on council tax–that cannot be fair!!
It is a sad reflection on both the Tories and the Labour parties that they seem unable to see this problem.
A fair and sensible solution would be to abolish council tax on primary residences and collect the same amount on national income tax–now that would be fair. The lib dems would like to do it by way of local income tax, but the problem with this is that the cost of collecting would still be there . By doing it on national income tax the system already exists and the cost would be close to zero.
RBC spend £1.25 million on collection , what a waste of money.
as for the ‘local control’ arguement it is a well known and proven fact that the government have underfunded councils of all colours over the last decade ,and caused the council tax to double so local control does not really exist.
We hear a lot of the phrae ‘fuel poverty’ –I wonder how many households are in ‘council tax poverty’?
Bearing in mind that your idea of running a blog was to keep your electorate informed———what happened on the monday evening a month ago?
Update on the figure quoted above —-RBC now spend £1.6 million annually collecting council tax—-what an even bigger waste of money.!
After the next election ,and presumably we will have a Tory government,the need to save money will be enormous–what better place to start than cutting out waste by changing an unfair tax system.
Any comments Emma??Anything at all??